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Name
  
John Deane


Role
  
Poet

John F. Deane wwwjohnfdeanecomimagesJohnportrait2jpg

Books
  
Snow Falling on Chestnut, Manhandling the deity, Eye of the Hare, Where No Storms Come, A little book of hours

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The 2016 pierre teilhard de chardin sj lecture by john f deane


John F. Deane (born 1943 on Achill Island) is an Irish poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979.

Contents

The bill casey lecture series john f deane


Career

Deane published several collections of poetry and some fiction. He won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Deane was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland”. In 2007, the French Government honoured him by making him Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

References

John F. Deane Wikipedia